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10 Commandments of Historical Writing

Below are links to a collection of wordles designed to help you develop and extend your historical writing and vocabulary. They are a combination of useful connectives to add clarity and variety to your writing and examples of 'technical' historical language to help you make your ideas explicit, such as ways of describing 'types' of cause - underlying, trigger, fundamental.

Wordle: Change and Continuity
Change & Continuity

Wordle: Cause & Consequence
Cause & Consequence

Wordle: Significance
Historical Significance

Wordle: Interpretations
Interpretations

Wordle: Importance
Historical Importance

Wordle: Chronology & Timing
Chronology & Timing

Wordle: Similarity & Difference
Similarity & Difference (comparison)

Wordle: Typicality
Typicality

Wordle: Evidence
Evidence